IAdea‘s CEO John Wang chairs the standards committee of the Digital Signage Multimedia Association (DSMA) and tells us that the DSMA will be hosting a Digital Signage Forum during COMPUTEX TAIPEI (June 5-9).

Many have suggested that our planned week long research trip to Taiwan could be the week of COMPUTEX – we even discussed this with the COMPUTEX organisers who we met in Lost Wages when they announced their more formal tie up with #CES in January but …

We are in Tokyo June 9th in prep for a week at Digital Signage Japan and whilst we could head to Tokyo straight from Taiwan we think it would be too much of a culture shock (and a shame to dive so quickly from new culture to another)

Secondly we want to spend some quality time with the people we meet in Taiwan (during COMPUTEX their minds will be elsewhere)

The DSMA was previously the ‘DS-SIG‘, which was formed some 4 years ago as an informal ‘special interest group’ representing 150+ member companies.

This new association has only just been incorporated and they are, we understand, holding their first meeting this Friday (tomorrow, March 23rd) – when you think that some 144 attendees have registered for that first meeting you may come to realise what a powerful body this could be!

A new website dedicated to DSMA is expected to be up in the next few weeks.

The Digital Signage Forum at Computex is scheduled to take place on Friday, June 8th.